SUMHI Leadership

Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative (SUMHI) leadership

Dr. William Torrey, MD, is Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at The Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Sally Kraft MD, MPH, serves as Vice President of Population Health at Dartmouth Health.

Planning team members include:

Luke Archibald, MD - Section Chief, Addiction Treatment Center
Karen Borgstrom - Director External Affairs, Communications and Marketing
Todd Danis - Program Coordinator, Regional System Integration
Kirk Dufty, MD - Chief Medical Offier, New London Hospital
AJ Horvath - Director Psychiatry Administration
Angie Raymond Leduc - Program Manager Injury Prevention, Regional Community Health
Joni Menard - Vice President, Ambulatory Nursing
Pushkala Muralitharan, MD - Medical Director, Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Concord
Gregory Norman – Director of Community Health
Seddon Savage, MD, MS – Advisor, Substance Use and Mental Health Initiative
Susanne Tanksi, MD, MPH - Section Chief, General Academic Pediatrics; Vice Chair, General Pediatrics; Associate Director, C. Everett Koop Institute

Dr. Matthew Duncan leads efforts to integrate mental health services within primary care.
Dr. Julia Frew and Daisy Goodman, CNM co-lead a group focused on improving outcomes for families and children affected by perinatal substance use disorders through providing enhanced perinatal addiction treatment.
Dr. Patricia Lanter leads several ED initiatives in collaboration with community health staff including bringing recovery services to patients receiving care in the Emergency Department.
Dr. Charlie Brackett, with Drs. Christine Finn, H. Sam Landsman (Inpatient Psychiatry Services), and Patricia Lanter (Emergency Department) leads the Opioid Addiction Treatment Collaborative (OATC) initiative focusing on building systems and removing barriers to deliver evidence-based care for all Dartmouth Health patients with opioid use disorder.
Dr. Seddon Savage leads a variety of strategies focused on changing the stigma and culture of shame and silence around substance use and mental health disorders.